Banana through the Global Musa Genomics Consortium and programme considering its small genome size has a chance of becoming a model plant for vegetatively propagated crops. This has led to the ...

A block course allows students to see application of these techniques to plant breeding programmes in industry, and encourages discussion and networking. A career development course on the application ...

A career development course on the application of quantitative genetics and plant breeding. Topics include objective setting, plant genetic resources, base population development, quantitative genetic ...

Plant tissue culture techniques are powerful tools in shortening the time needed to generate breeding mutant lines (those that always pass down certain traits to their offspring). This is a bottleneck ...